YouTube video shows gun spontaneously fire

Remington issued a recall for over 1.3M Model 700 rifles after a YouTube video showed one firing without its triggered being pulled

2017Feb 17

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In April 2014, Remington issued a voluntary recall for over 1.3 million Model 700 rifleswith a trigger mechanism known as the X-Mark Pro.A few months earlier, an alarming YouTube video had gone viral in which a garage experiment, conducted by a Model 700 owner, showed a potentially deadly defect: his rifle could fire without its trigger being pulled in cold weather.